Goodreads asked Andrew Sweet:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Andrew Sweet Models and Citizens has been almost 3 years in the making. The book was a response to our 2016 election here in the states. I wanted to explore how a normal person would react in an environment that marginalized a large swathe of the population. How do we behave when doing the right thing means sacrificing our own comfort? What about when our livelihoods hang in the balance?

The United States election in 2016 brought these questions to my mind, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go gave me the perfect perspective with which to explore them.

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